[IRTalk] Journals requiring thesis disclosure statement?

[Hussein Suleman]

Dear Colleagues

UCT recently discovered that a local publisher (AOSIS) now wants 
explicit disclosure whenever an article is related to a thesis.

see: 
https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/pages/view/submission-guidelines#part_2

We have not seen this before.  In fact, we have an old rule that 
generally disallows disclosing that an article is related to thesis 
research.

It seems reasonable to have links in both directions and we cannot 
fathom why the old rule exists.  Could this be to prevent bias or conflicts?

Does any other institution have such a rule?  Has anyone else had to 
change rules because of the new AOSIS author declaration?

Regards,
    Hussein Suleman

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Hussein Suleman, PhD
Dean: Faculty of Science, Professor of Computer Science, University of 
Cape Town
www.husseinsspace.com